The head of the American Immigration and Naturalization Service held talks here today with Chinese officials, hoping to get a commitment for more help in stemming the huge flow of illegal Chinese immigrants into the United States. The visit came...

The political storm over Elian Gonzalez grew fiercer today as the Republican leadership of the Senate called for hearings on the Justice Department's decision to use armed agents to seize the 6-year-old boy, and as Vice President Al Gore distanced...

A pediatrician who is advising the United States government on the Elian Gonzalez custody standoff said the 6-year-old was being psychologically abused in the home of his Miami relatives and should be immediately removed from the home. ''We think...

Attorney General Janet Reno said yesterday that three doctors would meet with the family of Elian Gonzalez to decide how to handle the transfer of the child. Ms. Reno said Doris Meissner, the Immigration and Naturalization Service commissioner,...

The father of Elian Gonzalez will travel to the United States from Cuba on Thursday morning to reclaim his son, a lawyer for the boy's father announced tonight after returning from Havana. The announcement sets the stage for a showdown over the...

The Florida relatives of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez proposed today the appointment of an independent arbitrator to determine whether sending the boy back to Cuba or allowing him to stay here was in his best interest. Federal officials rejected the...

The grandmothers of Elian Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban refugee who has been living with relatives in Miami and caught for months in the eye of an international custody storm, flew to New York from Havana yesterday and made a poignant appeal for the...

Elian Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban refugee who was rescued from an inner tube off Florida on Thanksgiving Day, will remain in Miami at least through Christmas, immigration officials said today. The Immigration and Naturalization Service faxed a...

Attorney General Janet Reno declined to block the release last night of an Egyptian man who had been held for three and a half years in a New York jail on secret evidence that the F.B.I. had said linked him to terrorists in the United States and...

Credit to the Commissioner of Immigration, Doris Meissner, for a difficult and important decision. She has ended the long effort to deport an alien on the basis of secret evidence, declining to seek further review of court rulings against her agency,...